The restaurant industry was already one of the most complex businesses in the world before the Fourth Industrial Revolution arrived, introducing new consumer demands for innovation and convenience, new technologies for managing operations and connecting with guests, and a fast pace of disruption that has helped upstart companies and segments leapfrog established organizations.
Aaron Allen & Associates is a global strategy firm focused exclusively on the foodservice and hospitality industry. We advise many of the largest and most successful foodservice and hospitality companies globally with an unparalleled breadth and depth of experience across categories, cuisines, geographies, functional areas, ownership types, service styles, operating platforms, and phases of the business lifecycle.
Select highlights of our client experience include:
From insights to ideation to implementation, we bring practical and relevant experience ranging from the dish room to the boardroom.
We track the $3.1 trillion global consumer foodservice industry down to the transaction level and apply a holistic and integrated approach to strategic issues related to growth and expansion, performance optimization, guest experience, and enterprise value enhancement.
Clients come to us to solve their most complex challenges and achieve their most ambitious aims.
We help executive teams bridge the gap between what’s happening inside and outside the business and support with imagining, articulating, and realizing a compelling vision of the future, aligning and cascading resources, and engaging and enrolling shareholders and stakeholders alike to develop multi-year roadmaps that move current-state conditions to future-state ambitions. Our core competencies include:
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